Humanitarian

Southern India Famine – 1876-1878

For two years in the 1870s over 58 million people in the Bombay, Madras, Mysore

The fate of Australian Aboriginals – 1850 onwards

The once widely used catch-all phrase ‘Australian Aboriginals’ is being replaced by Indigenous Australians’. In

Manifest Destiny and Indian Removal – 19th Century

‘Manifest Destiny’ has at its core the assertion that not only were the European people

The Great Irish Famine – 1845-1852

During the Napoleonic Wars, Irish landlords enjoyed a successful period as the price of food

The Vendee – Genocide in the Name of Revolution – 1793-1795

Afterwards, French General Joseph Westermann wrote to Robespierre’s Committee of Public Safety: ‘There is no

Famine in Bengal – 1770

At the time of the 1770 Bengal famine, the British East India Company was governing

The Transatlantic Slave Trade – 16-19th Century

The seal of the Society for the Abolition of Slavery in England shows an African

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